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- Excavating Occaneechi Town: An archaeology primer
- Republished with permission from the Research Laboratories of Archaeology, the Archaeology Primer uses photographs of the excavations at Occaneechi Town to introduce fundamental concepts of archaeology. The primer provides an introduction to the methods of archaeology and to some common types of artifacts, and prepares students to participate in an electronic archaeological dig.
- Format: slideshow (multiple pages)
- Recovering charcoal by flotation
- Students retrieving charred plant remains by flotation.
- Format: image/photograph
- Ancient pit contents
- Ancient refuse at the bottom of a pit.
- Format: image/photograph
- What ancient pit contents tell us
- A closer view of ancient refuse at the bottom of a pit.
- Format: image/photograph
- Excavated features — after excavation
- A photograph and drawing of the feature after excavation has been completed.
- Format: image/photograph
- Excavated features — before excavation
- A photograph and map of an unexcavated archaeological feature at Occaneechi Town.
- Format: image/photograph
- Excavated features — during excavation
- A photograph and map of an unexcavated archaeological feature at Occaneechi Town.
- Format: image/photograph
- Artifacts found by waterscreening
- Small artifacts recovered by waterscreening.
- Format: image/photograph
- Excavation block
- An exavation block at Occaneechi Town with plowed soil removed. The dark stains are archaeological features.
- Format: image/photograph
- Backfilling the Occaneechi Town excavation
- Student backfilling an archaeological excavation.
- Format: image/photograph
- Ancient pits
- Photograph of students revealing ancient pits by troweling the top of subsoil.
- Format: image/photograph
- Establishing the site grid
- Photograph of students using a transit to establish a grid line at Occaneechi Town.
- Format: image/photograph
- Post hole structure
- A circular ring of post hole stains at the Wall site, near Occaneechi Town, showing where a house once stood.
- Format: image/photograph
- Occaneechi archaeological map
- A section of the archaeological map of Occaneechi Town.
- Format: image/photograph
- Excavated post hole structure
- A circular ring of excavated post holes at the Wall site, near Occaneechi Town, showing where a house once stood.
- Format: image/photograph
- Occaneechi excavation tasks
- Photograph of students engaged in various excavation tasks at Occaneechi Town.
- Format: image/photograph
- Excavating an ancient pit
- Photograph of a student excavating the contents from an ancient pit.
- Format: image/photograph
- Removing plowed soil
- Photograph of students excavating and sifting plowed soil at Occaneechi Town.
- Format: image/photograph
- Ancient post holes
- Photograph of students revealing ancient post holes by troweling the top of subsoil.
- Format: image/photograph
- Common artifacts: Brick fragments
- These small brick fragments found in the plowed soil at Occaneechi Town are associated with European settlement in the area after about 1750.
- Format: image/photograph
